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Here are the ‘Worst in Show’ CES products, according to consumer and privacy advocates


The best CES products pierce through the haze of marketing hype at the Las Vegas gadget show to reveal innovations that could improve lives.

Powered by a large language model — the type of AI system behind chatbots like ChatGPT — Amazon says an Alexa “car expert” will be able to provide “quick instructions and answers about vehicle functions in a much more human, conversation-like manner, and even act on your behalf.” Hanson said the augmented reality experience demonstrated at CES was a showcase of “potential use cases” that could aid or entertain people but that minimizing driver distraction remains a key principle in what BMW rolls out to customers. Robotic vacuums are nothing new, but Paul Roberts of Secure Repairs says the new X2 Combo combines all the elements for intrusive home surveillance — cameras, microphones, LiDAR, voice recognition and computer vision that can recognize objects — without any guarantee that its unencrypted images or video feed can’t be hacked.

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